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"It was weird," wrote George H.W. Bush in his diary entry for August 9, 1972, the day Richard Nixon became the first president in American history ever to resign the office. One question seemed to keep asking itself: "What kind of man is this really"?
Before he actually went there, Pfc. Harold Porter read about Germany in the socialist Jan Valtin's "Out of the Night." The book's account of the vicious Gestapo, the Nazi's secret police, seemed to him "preposterous." Then, in May of 1945, he went to Germany as a medic with the U.S. Army and changed his mind. "I've seen worse nights than any he described," he wrote to his parents.
Embedded reporting had not yet been invented when Thomas Jefferson watched a mob of Frenchmen storm the Bastille in 1789. As a result, his account is limited only by the quality of his sources. "How they got in," he wrote of the men and women who started the revolution, "has as yet been impossible to discover. Those, who pretend to have been of the party tell so many different stories as to discredit them all." Other events Jefferson relays more confidently, and with shocking calm: how the mob released prisoners, stole weapons, walked the Bastille's "Governor & Lieutenant governor" to the Guillotine–and then "cut off their heads."
AP - Israeli warplanes renewed attacks on Lebanon early Saturday, targeting bridges and fuel storage tanks and gas stations in the east and south, security officials said.
AP - President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed Saturday to work together to combat nuclear terrorism, saying the greatest threat facing the world today is the threat of attack by nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
AP - World leaders, tearing up a carefully prepared agenda for their annual summit, turned their attention to a growing crisis in the Middle East that has highlighted the differences between President Bush and major U.S. allies.
No individual police officers involved in the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber, will face prosecution.
• Israel, Hezbollah continue trading airstrikes • Four Israeli sailors missing after warship hit • Hezbollah leader ready for "open war" with Israel • Israeli jets strike Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut • Rocket kills Israeli woman and grandson, 5